Adolescents who have a considerable degree of ________ have the ability to overcome circumstances that place them at high risk for psychological or physical damage,

such as
the extremes of poor parenting, poverty, or homes that are faced with violence.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

resilience

Psychology

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Personality is the pattern of:

a. methods we use to control emotions, needs, and desires. b. characteristics that we are born with and develop in the first two years of life. c. characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persist over time and situations and distin- guish one person from another d. complex ways we interact with other people and the thoughts we have about them

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Based on the results of Milgram's studies where a "teacher" gave fake electric shocks to a "learner," we can conclude that the tendency to obey authority __________

a) was very strong in 1963 but not nearly as strong in today's modern world. b) is stronger if the authority figure is a male than it is if the figure is a female. c) is strong, but can be weakened if more than one individual resists. d) is stronger for females than it is for males.

Psychology